Apex is a monthly on-line magazine edited by Jason Sizemore among others.

Everything is available in HTML from
the magazine's site,
and it can be bought in various other formats.

Words from the Editor-in-Chief by Jason Sizemore is an apology in
advance for having such a downbeat and depressing set of stories. Er,
you're the editor?

On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog by Adam R. Shannon deals
with the death of a beloved pet and the invention of time travel in
order to try to avoid it – and the complications inherent in that.
Second-person present robs this of any resonance it might have for me;
it seems as though it's getting most of its force from pushing
dog-owner emotional buttons, which largely don't work on me and I find
I resent the attempt.

Girls Who Do Not Drown by A.C. Buchanan reeks of Metaphor and
Message, but is well written and lyrical. It's not a style I
particularly like, but I can at least appreciate that it's being done
well.

Captain Midrise by Jim Marino is more second-person narration, mixed
past and present; the superhero used to be utterly amazing, and is now
much less super (he ambles along in the sky at sixth floor level, for
example). Some people hate him for it; others don't. No plot, just
incident.

The Man Who Has Been Killing Kittens by Dee Warrick (reprint) is
more second-person present narration, about obsession and magical
thinking. There's some good imagery but it doesn't go anywhere.

Young, Gifted, and Black: My First GenCon Experience by Isabella
Faidley is some thoughts from a fourteen-year-old writer (well,
described as such, but this is her first published work, even though
she went to GenCon on the basis of being a writer). Travelling with
her writing teacher, she is surprised that she is mistaken for his
daughter. She doesn't seem to have much to say.

The Princess and the Quest by Alethea Kontis gives some thoughts
from a more experienced writer, mostly a long quest to get tickets for
a particular event. It's possible to write about mundane things in a
way that's enjoyable to read, but there's no vim here.

Words for Thought by A.C. Wise reviews four short stories, each
rigidly in the format of an introductory paragraph, a quote, and a
longer paragraph. Each one is more descriptive than analytical, the
sort of thing one might write for Wikipedia rather than as a review
per se; I get very little sense of Wise's own thoughts or opinions.

Interview with Author Adam R. Shannon by Andrea Johnson shows the
author missing the point of the hard questions.

So three out of the four stories here are in second-person narration
and largely in the present tense, and are basically depressing, and
come to no conclusion. I can't help but regard this as an editorial
failure even if these are things that the editor likes; they'd have
worked better spread out across multiple issues.

I can't see why anyone would be happy about having spent $2.99 for
this. If the next issue isn't at least a bit better I'll probably stop
reading regularly.